Allen Gregory: Officially Cancelled, No Season Two

At the FOX portion of the TCA Winter Press Tour, FOX Entertainment President Kevin Reilly confirmed what we’d long suspected. He said simply, “We will not be making any more Allen Gregory.” The network will however continue to work with the show’s star and co-creator, Jonah Hill, noting that he already has a live-action comedy in the works with the network.

Featuring the voices of Hill, French Stewart, Nat Faxon, Joy Osmanski, Christina Puccelli, Jake Johnson and Renee Taylor, Allen Gregory debuted at the end of October to soft ratings. Viewership dropped as the weeks progressed and the animated sitcom quickly became one of the lowest-rated scripted series on FOX.

The network had initially ordered just seven installments and, even though episodes of animated shows require more lead time to produce, they made no indication that they were planning to order any more.

The last episode of Allen Gregory aired on December 18th, surrounded by repeats of other FOX shows, and hit a new series low in the ratings.

What do you think? Are you sorry that Allen Gregory won’t be back for a second season? Did the creative team go too far with the show or not far enough?

i really liked allen gregory, but, it seems that a lot of people didn’t. what you have to kind of have to first get by is the whole gay thing, which a certain segment of the population can’t, but more than that you kind of have to get that the central premise of the story is that the lead character is an unlikable d-bag and tha several other characters are (were) fatally flawed d-bags themselves. i mean, that WAS the premise of the show and i thought they were really clever coming up with “plausible” or at least carryable plots… Read more »

I have to say that the show was by far not the best. That being said I did watch every episode and actually sort of looked forward to the new ones each week. It was my own form of guilty pleasure. LOL Do I think they could do better? Yes. Do I think Napoleon Dynomite is the answer to that betterness? Absolutely not. I would rather see more episodes of Allen Gregory than watch Napoleon revamped. The previews look like there could possibly be enough funny spots to make up a whole single episode throughout the entire series run, as… Read more »

I watched every episode of Allen Gregory but never could get into it. I wanted to give it a chance, but quite frankly I’m glad. Allen and his father were both too pretentious and full of themselves. Richard and the daughter were the only likeable characters, and they were constantly mistreated. I also felt the subliminal homoerotic feelings Allen had for Zake were too much for an animated show that pre-teens would be watching, and I’m gay myself! Maybe, just maybe, AG would have worked better on Adult Swim, but I doubt it.

Freedom is a costly thing. Even though the creative community can say more explicit things on TV than in years past, the challenge still remains to say something of wit or value. The creators of this show knew how to make the show edgy (can you imagine the closed-door meetings? “Let’s make Gregory’s dad gay! Gay is the new black!”), but they failed to create a single sympathetic character. By design, the main character was unlikable, his father was bad, if not worse, the father’s paramour was a gold-digger, Gregory’s love interest (!) was a much older woman with no… Read more »

Allen Gregory was easily the dumbest, most poorly thought-out, least clever, and least entertaining show that I’ve ever seen. All of the appropriately mean criticisms that you’ve probably already read on the internet–are true. Bad characters, valueless humor and story lines, and absolutely nothing worth coming back for a second viewing.

Praise the powers that be for canceling this show. Seriously, it will make me happy the rest of the night knowing that Allen Gregory will never be on TV again.

I’ve loved shows, I’ve liked shows, I’ve been able to take or leave shows. Some shows didn’t tickle my fancy. There were some I disliked, and there were some I hated. But until I saw the first episode of this show, there was never a show I hated enough to get up from my couch halfway through the episode, get on my computer, and begin to talk to anyone who would hear about how awful a show was. I’d never joined websites, blogs, or anything of the sort with the sole intent of publicly voicing my displeasure at a show.… Read more »

This is the best cancellation news of the season. I often dislike shows, but I rarely hate a scripted show. For 2011, this is the only scripted show I hate. I am glad it is gone. Jonah Hill should consider sticking with acting and getting out of creating if this is the kind of dung he thinks up.

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